ISS-An Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System for Infectious Disease in Rural China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Yan, Weirong ^a,c   Palm, Lars ^b   Lu, Xin ^a,f,g   Nie, Shaofa ^c   Xu, Biao ^d   Zhao, Qi ^d   Tao, Tao ^d   Cheng, Liwei ^c   Tan, Li ^c   Dong, Hengjin ^e,h   Diwan, Vinod K ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Box 975   (Sweden)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CHINA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; COUGHING; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PHARMACY; PILOT STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RASH; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SORE THROAT; VOMITING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION;

CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PILOT PROJECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84876554939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062749     Document Type: Article

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